To be clear, any Dem running here is going to be running uphill -- Dems have fielded real candidates in 2016 (including Donovan's predecessor in CO SD 05), 2018, and 2020 *and* with the addition of an 8th district in CO, it's likely there'll be a red district on the western slope
Not to mention, the general issues with it being a Biden midterm and Biden didn't win the current configuration of CO-03 (Trump won it 52-46, and there's a lot of animosity in the rural areas vs the liberal ski towns and Donovan is from Vail). That being said... Boebert is crazy.
Colorado uses a commission. It's possible, but it'd be hard. Much more likely that the CO-08 is a lean-Dem district in the Denver suburbs (Douglas?) and maybe CO-05 shrinks/gets a little more competitive by the end of the decade
I still can't believe that McCarthy made his members take this vote. (I mean, I can, he's not very bright)
Staffer: "We're hemorrhaging voters who don't like conspiracy theories and QAnon"
McCarthy: "Okay, so here's what we'll do: we'll make each of our members vote on whether a conspiracy theorist should be on the budget and education committee."
Staffer: "Uh"
I have no idea if this will be effective. But perhaps "your rep voted to put a 9/11 truther on the education committee" has some salience for people.
This person isn’t serious (they worked for the Daily Caller) but lefties really need to look in the mirror and realize their “all they gave us were $1200 checks” rhetoric didn’t at all articulate how much stimulus was in the CARES Act... including enhanced UI benefits
I voted for Bernie in the primary and had to watch some of his very online boosters misrepresent a bill that helped millions as “just” giving $1200 and nothing else. It’s the same rhetoric all over again.
David Perdue is down by 45,000 votes (and that could go up!) and still hasn’t conceded yet even after every major news organization called the race for Jon Ossoff two days ago. Even Kelly Loeffler conceded.
He can't even say Ossoff's name, he thanks "the Democratic Party and his opponent". Sorry you got humiliated by a guy half your age, go back to your private island.
Based on absolutely nothing (truly), I bet there was some sort of ultimatum of this type of statement he had to give in order to avoid the 25th amendment, and see if you can spot all of the lies still in here -- he refused to call the national guard!
Ultimately, a version of this statement should've been given on November 7th. The damage is done. You can't "now it's time to have a smooth transition" out of spending two months trying to upend a free and fair election and then getting *5* people killed with a dumb coup attempt.
Listening to these House speeches, it's quite obvious how many are bullshitting -- but it's also striking how you can see how many true believers there are.
These people also have no idea what they’re talking about. It’s just bad faith bullshit.
Donating to @AlyseGalvin and @WilliamsForMT might be the most important political donations you give this year. And if you can’t donate, phone and text bank. I’ll explain the insanity of contingent elections below.
Before we get started I want to stress that our constitution is deeply stupid and antiquated and some of these ideas never should’ve passed the smell test to begin with. Yet here we are.
If no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the electoral college, the top 3 electoral college vote getters then go to a “contingent election” where the House decides the election. Weird, but simple, right? Lol no